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Product Focus Unit4 Business World
ERP FOR PEOPLE-
CENTERED SERVICES
ORGANIZATIONSDigital transformation with zero disruption
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CONTENTS
ERP for people-centered services organizations 5
Powerful business support 6
All-round success 7
Magic ingredients for your future success
Better business results
Unit4 Business World - key capabilities
The Unit4 response
Game changing solutions
Built for people 3
Design for change 4
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“ Unit4 Business World will be transformational for us. We are a people
business, fully committed to providing the best systems to support everyone in their work. Business World will touch every part of our business, helping us
successfully navigate the business challenges we face. We have been
particularly impressed with innovations such as Wanda, Unit4’s digital assistant,
which will support our people with a self-driving user experience, proactively
managing repetitive everyday tasks and leaving them more time to focus
on tasks that drive value. ”Mark Reddy,
Finance Director.
Unit4 Business World is supporting Grant Thornton UK LLP’s finance transformation, enriching user experience for more than 5,000 users, standardizing best practices across 27 UK offices and providing improved business insights to enable better decision-making.
BUILT FOR PEOPLE
Since we started Unit4 in 1980, our purpose has never changed — we exist to free people from low-value, repetitive tasks and enable them to be more productive, more creative and more successful at their work.Four decades, four industries
Over the past four decades we’ve built a strong customer base and deep expertise in people-centered service industries. In recent years, we’ve laser-focused our efforts on four in particular: professional services organizations, higher education institutions, not-for-profit and public services.
We’re supporting the digital transformation of organizations in these industries — while meeting their compliance and legislation demands — through an ecosystem of solutions designed for each one.
Creating space for work that matters
These industries also reflect the heart of Unit4 — our customers are dedicated to making the world a better place, and that aligns with our purpose. We work alongside them to bring innovations and solutions that increase their effectiveness and ability to achieve their respective missions.
By building software for people and designing it for agility, we help service organizations manage ongoing digital transformation with zero disruption.
We create space for their people through the reduction or elimination of manual tasks, because we believe technology should empower people to spend more time on the critical tasks that can never be done by a computer. By doing this, we’re helping people-centered organizations boost satisfaction and make processes more effective, so everyone powers organizational growth, together. And the end results? Happier and more successful customers, students, aid beneficiaries and citizens.
We are Unit4 and we are in business for people.
The Unit4 response
Introducing - your new application >>>
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Our core business software solution for this rapidly evolving landscape is Unit4 Business World, an enterprise-grade cloud ERP, with automated processes and augmented experiences, driven by the latest technologies. It supports the back- and front-office processes of people-centered organizations, it’s built on a flexible platform, and is designed for a very fast time-to-value.The industry-focused solutions generate rapid value in the strategic processes of organizations from sectors including professional services, higher education, public services and not-for-profit – helping each person to create better value for themselves, their organization and their customers.
Its comprehensive business process support delivers the management of finances, procurement, projects, HR & payroll, field services & assets, reporting, performance & analytics for each industry in one, seamlessly integrated solution with a consistent user experience.
Unit4 Business World harnesses the power of the Unit4 People Platform, which draws all Unit4 products together into a loosely coupled solution with a microservices-based architecture.
To enable faster implementation, shorter time-to-value and lower cost of ownership, we also offer a range of Value Accelerators. Strong service offerings and proactive support — including relevant recommendations, ongoing training and personalized engagement — ensure continuous value optimization.
There’s also an integrated performance management solution (Unit4 Prevero), which can stand alone or work seamlessly with any of the four industry solutions.
Let’s take a closer look at Business World’s capabilities >>>
“ We save hundreds of hours of manpower with Business World. In the
past, it took over 15 people two months to prepare a financial report; today we
can run a report instantly. Business World offers the best total cost of
ownership of all the top-tier vendors, it is a centralized system designed with service- and project-focused
organizations in mind, and the solution provides the flexibility needed in
operating an international organization like ours. After three years of using
Business World I feel confident we can easily provide financial reporting in
different ways according to our donors’ and users’ requirements. I am also
confident we can respond very quickly to a change in our business. ”
Jesus Pizarro, VP of Enterprise Accounting & Controller.
Heifer International saved $2.3m and helped three million families with Unit4 Business World.
DESIGNED FOR CHANGEGame changing solutions
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Now let’s look at the technology that powers all that functionality >>>
The Unit4 Business World suite delivers a full, end-to-end set of capabilities, which support the business processes in people-centered services organizations. Let’s look at them in a bit more detail.Financial Management — top-tier global accounting
Regain control and visibility over every stage of the record-to-report cycle within a single, integrated organization-wide system. This solution helps you streamline and improve budget planning and analysis while consolidating all data from other parts of a unified system, providing you with full control and overview at any time, from anywhere.
HR & Payroll — integrated people management, development & admin
Gain a clearer insight into the hire-to-retire cycle of your people with a central control center and a single place to store all information. This solution helps you reduce administration, human error and duplications while increasing insight into resources. Workflow and staff self-service facilities help you manage your employees.
Procurement Management — full spend visibility and control
Our single, centralized procure-to-pay solution helps you improve workflow and reduce costs. It enables clearer analysis of spending patterns to help you negotiate better terms and pricing; it includes ‘punchout’ functionality to lower overheads, increase control and accuracy. Authorization and approval can be tailored to your organization, department or spending type, thanks to automated workflow processes.
Project management — optimize and automate your project lifecycle
Unit4’s solution for project management helps you win more business, optimize resource utilization, execute profitable projects and bill with precision. It helps you hit revenue and margin targets thanks to 360-degree visibility and control over project plan, schedule, resources, cost and budget.
Estate and Asset Management — end-to-end field service & asset management
This is our complete solution for managing service orders for property management and maintenance workforces in the field. An end-to-end workflow connects the planning and preparation stages to the execution and billing phases. The result is reduced inspections admin costs, increased ROI and life expectancy of assets, maximized field team efficiency and productivity, optimized communications and improved customer service.
Operational Reporting is an agile, reliable and industry-specific solution for operational, financial information and planning needs, with information consistency, superior change support and efficient information distribution, combined with strong governance.
ERP FOR PEOPLE-CENTERED SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS Unit4 Business World - key capabilities
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Finally, here’s how our ERP suite can help you meet the needs of your stakeholders >>>
Unit4 Business World uses the most contemporary technologies — including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and digital assistants — to deliver powerful business process support that enables people to be more productive, more creative and more successful in their work.By streamlining process workflows, Unit4 Business World reduces menial tasks and manual interventions. It enhances decision-making and problem-solving, introduces new ways of capturing data (for example, from mobile devices) and creates new user experiences, such as using natural language to ‘talk’ with our digital assistant, Wanda.
It features intuitive experiences for users and visual interfaces (like dashboards and mobile, self-serve apps) that help them stay in control of even the most sophisticated and complex processes. Here are the four magic ingredients in our cloud ERP.
1. Unit4 Business World automates as many back-office tasks as possible to deliver smarter workflow processes by eliminating manual steps that do not add specific value.
2. It enables natural interactions so people can communicate with applications using everyday language (written and verbal) through Wanda.
3. Our ERP requires only management by exception to drive business processes forward (rather than relying on constant manual interventions and entries).
4. Real-time insights provide up-to-date data which supports better decision-making.
POWERFUL BUSINESS SUPPORT Magic ingredients for your future success
“ The beauty of installing these Unit4 solutions is that we can use our own
internal implementation staff. We don’t have to hire or pay for the usual software vendor army of highly priced,
external ERP consultants.
”Ian Sibbald,
Director of Finance.
Cranfield University (UK) saves £1m on annual IT costs with Unit4 Business World.
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The outcome of these impressive capabilities and powerful functionality is momentous. It helps people-centered organizations standardize and optimize operations to improve process efficacy and boost employee satisfaction; it allows them to forecast future change to manage digital transition, drive growth and scale up.Digital transformation with zero disruption
By implementing Unit4 Business World, services organizations gain increased agility and adaptability. Simplified user interfaces make it easier for non-tech-savvy users to make changes. And clearer reporting creates more efficient and informed decision-making. All of these are essential outcomes on the road to digital transformation.
Improved business process effectiveness
Our cloud ERP leads to increased productivity, improved operational efficiency and a drastic reduction in the time (and cost) spent on admin. It enables more profitable project execution and service delivery, as well as increased visibility over data; improved transparency, accountability and compliance. These are valuable business results in a world of mounting competition, bottoming-out productivity and regularly updated regulations.
Boosted employee satisfaction
Augmented user experiences escalate people’s well-being, satisfaction and engagement, while encouraging more collaboration, creativity and
innovation. Data visibility leads to optimized utilization and the automation of menial tasks means more space is created for people to do what they were hired for. All indispensable outcomes in the war on attracting and retaining talent.
Accelerated organizational scale and growth
The ultimate business-critical results here are increased revenue, margins or impact — more business won, more impact achieved, more people helped, fewer opportunities missed, faster routes to market for products and services — and better satisfaction for the people your services affect: your ‘customers’ (whether purchasers or recipients) and your customers’ customers. Greater billing precision and more efficient accounting bring clarity when measuring KPIs — a must-have for progressing to the next level in the business empowerment maturity model. In terms of growth, quicker enactment of cost-reduction plans is a vital outcome.
ALL-ROUND SUCCESSBetter business results
“ When you add all the savings up, we’re talking collectively about saving what amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and supporting growth needs
using resources once spent elsewhere. ”Bev Burnette, Manager, Finance
Business Support and Accounts Payable.
Using Unit4 Business World, the Canadian Township of Langley generated almost $250,000 in savings over three years — the software shifts centralized tasks to self-service, vastly reducing paper, budget requests and management costs, while diverting 75 percent of finance full-time equivalent staff time into better service provision.
About Unit4Unit4 is in business for people. We’ve specialized in software for service organizations, where people make the difference, since the early 1980s. Today, we build the smartest enterprise applications on the planet. Our technology is central to the organizations we serve – it improves efficiency and productivity, and allows people to spend more time on meaningful work. Using the latest AI, machine learning and digital technologies, our customers can make more sense of business-critical data than ever before. Our cloud ERP, financial management, corporate performance management and industry-focused solutions generate rapid value in the strategic processes of organizations from sectors including professional services, higher education, public services and not-for-profit – helping each person to create better value for themselves, their organization and their customers.
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